Speculum Type During Pap Smear/Pelvic

I'm curious what type of speculum your doctor uses during a pap smear or pelvic exam. Have different doctors used different types? Do you have a preference? What type of speculum do you use for play, and is that different from what would be used by your regular doctor?

By "types" I mean plastic or metal, or Graves (opens up and down) or Collins (opens side to side), or other types.

My regular (non play) docs have always used a Graves speculum, once it was plastic another time it was metal. But I got a metal Collins speculum for play time. I think I prefer metal and definitely prefer the Collins. It just feels a lot more comfortable to me.

My doctor normally uses the model that opens horinzontally but she has also used this one http://kinkindustries.com/images/ns310-large.jpg

I use the model that opens vertically at home

My doctor uses a metal Graves type on me for real exams but for play exams, I prefer the clear plastic ones...they just seem sexier and show more of the inside of my vagina. My doctor gave me a Collins one which when opened wide makes for some nice pictures and opens me up a little wider than either of the other types.

My doc always has a metal speculum

Regular metal graves for the GF now since I've streteched her out plenty with toys, fingers, my penis, etc.. Before me, the gyno would use the "pink little girl one" on her, as she puts it.. Hell, even I had to but a small pederson for her in the begining...

I have always been opened up with the Graves style speculum. And always in metal. The plastic ones scare me.

The bigger the better. (at least its easy to say that eh?)

I believe that my GYN uses a Graves. I can only assume it's a medium, although I have a small frame so maybe it's a small...

Plastic last time (have posted about this elsewhere), not comfortable, didn't like the experience and will be requesting a metal one next time.

My wife's gyn uses a metal, graves medium.

I also get a Graves; metal and size medium

Last exam I saw my wife get her doctor used a medium Graves.

Plastic medium graves.

For some reason the plastic ones seems to pinch me

Only have had real, metal, I guess "graves" kind.

I know it's metal and probably a Graves, but i have had the Collins used on me too.

I don't know, its plastic and disposable. LOL.

I feel the same as lynn l. All the doctors that have ever given me a pelvic exam have used a metal speculum. Even the exam I had in England last year.

My ex's doctor always used a small metal speculum on her. She wasn't a virgin, however she was very tight and there is no way in hell a medium would have worked.

My gf reports plastic graves, but that it's so quickly done, she can't see it, and generally isn't too interested.

Its a medium sized metal speculum, I think a Graves, during gyn exams.

During a gyn procedure in the clinic a large metal speculum was used on me (my hubby told me so as I could not see much)

Carla

It really ---- matters not. All feels the same.

Kind of like asking whether you like to have your temperature taken rectally with a thermometer in F or C . . . . all the same.

I've most often had a metal speculum used during my exams, but I've also experienced plastic at a clinic I went to. The plastic was a Graves style.

With metal speculums it's been both Graves and Pederson, typically medium except for my first exam which the doctor used a small. I've also noticed that the gynecologists I've been too have more often used a Graves metal speculum while the family practice / GP's have used metal Pederson speculums. Not sure if there is any reason for this, or just coincidence in the doctors I've been to.

If given a choice I'd much prefer metal over plastic.

A medium Graves is a good for most women. Not many real clincians use a Collins.

All of my wife's exams that I have attended, which has been many, a medium Pedersen was used. The only time a Graves was used on her was during her IUD insertion, and I believe it was a large. She said that the Graves being inserted and opened up inside her hurt almost as much as the IUD insertion itself! She is on the snug side, so a medium Pedersen is just right for her. They used to use the stainless ones, but lately it's been the lighted plastic type. The large Graves was stainless.

When my wife attends for her cervical smears the nurse uses a plastic medium size Cuscoe speculum, as is pretty standard in the UK.

I use a metal medium Cuscoe when I examine her.

I think my gynecologist just uses plastic Cusco speculums when I go to him for a check up. In September I had a good look when he has been putting it in so that is what it looked like to me. I had 2 cervical smears when I was 25 and 2 years ago when I was 28 when the practice nurses at my doctors shoved plastic speculums in a bit roughly 😮 . I did not know as much about speculums then but maybe they were the Cusco too.

I have got 2 steel speculums for when my husband gives me play exams, a medium Graves and a medium Collins. I like them both as much but they feel different because the Collins opens side to side and the Graves opens top to bottom. The steel ones do not creak either and that is a lot better.

My doctor use only metal speculum. He has 2 different speculums named Semm or Seyffert.. So he use large one at since i had a birth. II can feel pressure as is it spread open. The Seyffert feel more pressure.

In the past I've had Graves speculums used during my pap smears

The only doctors I have ever had use graves.